and then some jerk voicetested a robot for Save the Earth yep

[loveyoubaby]

Whoa, slow down there, baby! Aren't you getting a little too excited about this? I mean, I don't think this is going to work out. Not only do you want to toss me into some city that's being invaded by aliens or something, but you want to make me human on top of it? Fighting aliens I can deal with, but being tiny and fragile? No thank you!

...That's what I'd like to say, anyway, but you're not really going to give me a choice in the matter, are you.

Do I at least get a bike? ...Oh, you're giving me two bikes? Well in that case, maybe this won't be so bad after all.

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[thankyou4myheart]

Gunmax! It's good to see you.

Actually living as a human could be really interesting, I'd think.

I think I'd be more worried about the alien invasion. You'll have sufficient weaponry to defend yourself and others, I hope?

OOOH SNAP

[loveyoubaby]

Yo! Didn't think I'd catch you around here!

I guess my mun's going to make me a motorcycle cop. Fitting, right? At least I'll have some weapons, but I doubt it'll be anything impressive.

8D

[thankyou4myheart]

Heh, oh? I'm not that scarce, am I?

Motorcycle cop? Imagine that. [He's...not terribly good at sarcasm, actually, but he /is/ joking.] As long as you're able to take care of yourself. And you never know, you might be surprised at what's available.

[Probably not, considering what too many of his headmates are now yelling at him (he's still a pretty new muse), but hey, it could happen.]

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[loveyoubaby]

Well, I figured Shadowmaru at least would show up. He's kind of a creepy stalker, after all.

[d'aw Deckerd you and your pitiful attempts at sarcasm.] Nah, I'm pretty sure my arsenal's going to be pretty pathetic. I won't be able to turn into a canon, after all! And even if I was, you wouldn't be around to pull the trigger, so.

[certainly that wasn't innuendo of any sort what are you talking about]

[thankyou4myheart]

[He chuckles.]

He does tend to show up when least expected, yes. [and in ways least expected, like from the ceiling]

[His sarcasm is pitiful . . . and his cluelessness about innuendo even moreso. Have a team lead who takes things at face value as often as not. o.o He thinks you're just talking about trusting him, oops.]

I'm unable to take my J-Decker form at this point anyway, at least where I currently am. Though I suppose it wouldn't work where you're going either, if people are getting changed into humans.

[loveyoubaby]

We need to put a bell on that guy or something. We should send a petition around for it.

[half trust, half innuendo. Who even knows.]

No kidding, huh. Sounds pretty inconvenient.

I figure I'll manage. Long as I got a bike, it won't be too different.

[thankyou4myheart]

I think he'd find a way to spike our gasoline or something if we tried that.

[And then . . . the humor's kind of gone. orz]

Well, J-Roader's not there, for one. The boss isn't there, for another. And I . . . I don't want him to be. It's a world not really meant for human habitation. It's dangerous, and survival basics like food are scarce. There isn't even any gasoline there. Those of us who are there had to be converted to run on the native fuel source, something they call energon.

[But enough of /his/ challenges. He nods.]

I'm glad you'll at least have a bike.

[loveyoubaby]

If he touches my gasoline I'll snap his fingers off. Fair warning.

[you don't fuck with a dude's gas yo. but enough of that, it is apparently serious business time]

Man, when you start saying stuff like that, it just makes me sound whiny. You're not the only one there?

[thankyou4myheart]

[He manages another grin, though it's a tempered one. It's been a LONG and EVENTFUL two months since first finding himself on this alien world that he's now on.]

Not whiny, Gunmax. Everyone has their own challenges. But no, I'm not the only one... [there's an unspoken "thankfully" - unspoken because he knows the world has been difficult on the others, far moreso than on him, and he'd spare them that if he could.] I'm just the most recently arrived. Power Joe is there, and McCrane and Drill Boy. And Kagerou, Shadowmaru's prototype - he was before your time, I know-

...though I see you've met him. I think he was never properly socialized at all, but he means well.

[loveyoubaby]

Sounds like quite the party up there. Good to hear that you don't have to deal with it by yourself, though.

[Still, it sounds like a pretty shitty situation.]

Huh? Oh yeah, that guy. Never thought I'd meet someone that's worse at sarcasm than you are.

Er. No offense or anything.

Aaand if I don't answer again till, like, LATE tomorrow night, it's because bed, etc

[thankyou4myheart]

[It is...but you make the best of things that you can, and that's what he's doing.]

[And that? Actually half-startles a real laugh out of him.]

Am I really that bad? None taken, of course. But yes, he just needs patience. He's a good person, though.

So . . . where is it exactly that you're being sent? Do you know the name of the place yet?

NO BIGGIE it's like almost 3:30 here so YES BED

[loveyoubaby]

[That laugh is rewarded with a grin. Kind of a cocky grin, but it's still a grin.]

Yeah baby, you're pretty horrible at it. Not even gonna try to sugar coat it. He seems okay, though, if not incredibly depressing.

Anyway. It's called Save the Earth. Shadowmaru's already there, so at least I'll have someone to annoy. Once we remember each other, anyway. I guess there's some level of memory loss that comes with the whole turning into a human thing.

OH GEEZ yeah wow. o.o

[thankyou4myheart]

Heh, it's all right.

[bit of a wince, and a nod, at the comment on Kagerou]

He's been through a lot, as I understand.

[That last, though!? OUCH.]

Memory loss? Damn... You will be allowed to recover it, though, right? You and Shadowmaru both?

i'm hardcore that way

[loveyoubaby]

Yeah? I'm not as nosy as some people I know, so I figured I'd let it go.

[yeah sucks don't it. Gunmax just shrugs it off.]

Yeah, we'll be able to remember stuff. Might take a while, though. I have to admit, it does sort of bother me, but there's not really much I can do about it.

@,@ I'd die so much - my work alarm starts going off at 5:30 x,x

[thankyou4myheart]

[Deckard nods, but as he's not sure of specifics - and they're really not his to tell anyway - nor of what all Gunmax does or doesn't know, he'll go ahead and leave it at that as well.]

[He's still kind of grimacing at the rest, but...another nod and even a small grin.]

As long as you'll get it back eventually. Hopefully it won't take too long. On the upside, I can only begin to imagine the kinds of memories and experiences you'll be building in the meantime.

my work hours are nuts. Last week I had to be up at 5 am, this week is all evening shifts

[loveyoubaby]

I'm starting to think my mun's going to be making this as annoying for me as possible. She's already cramming as many motorcycle puns into the app as she can.

Ick... *offers snugs*

[thankyou4myheart]

[He winces - that sounds horrible!...in an embarrassing way. Then he glances away and up . . . and shifts as if to roll his eyes.]

My mun's impressed. She says she's worse at puns than I am at sarcasm.

[Thanks, Miss Mun. He loves you too.]

<333 such is life

[loveyoubaby]

Haha! Sounds like you two are a pretty good match! I hope she's not as much of a jerk as my mun.

[Wow Gunmax rude]

At least you're employed, right?

[thankyou4myheart]

Ah . . . jerk, no, not as such.

On the other hand, there are a number of the older figures here in the headspace who are assuring me I'll learn sooner or later how much of a sadist she can be. Sooner, apparently, if something in the next few weeks goes down the way she and others are planning...

[SHHH, you're scaring him, guys, stop that.]

YES this is very true

[loveyoubaby]

Well, shit. That doesn't sound too promising, does it? You think you're gonna be okay, ooor...?

\o/

[thankyou4myheart]

. . .

[Right - no worrying your teammates, boy scout. You're supposed to be the strong one for them, remember?]

[He nods.]

Yeah. I'll be fine. Death isn't permanent here, not wholly. Besides, I've recovered before. I'll manage it again.

[He will. He /has/ to. For others' sakes.]

[loveyoubaby]

Whoa whoa whoa, hold up! Your mun wants to get you killed off!? What the hell!

[well so much for not worrying the teammates right. NOT COOL, BOY SCOUT. SUPER NOT COOL.]

*GASP! - finally comes up for air again @,@* Busy busy busy...

[thankyou4myheart]

[Deckard actually flinches a little at the reaction. He'd meant that to be reassuring…but, uh, yeah, from the other side, he supposes it really wasn't after all. Especially for someone who was /there/ for his death the last time, and so deeply affected by it (at least, so he'd been told after the fact). He holds up his hands.]

Gunmax, calm down. There's going to be an . . . an incident coming up very soon. An extremely dangerous criminal is going be escaping from prison. He's incredibly powerful even by the Cybertronians' standards, far beyond anything you or I have ever faced yet. It took . . . a lot to take him down and arrest him the first time, from what I'm told. He got Drill Boy . . . Power Joe told me. Drill Boy's fine now, but . . . neither of them are usually at the police headquarters, and if I'm there, it means McCrane probably won't be either. I'm going to be recovered, I already know that, and I'd rather it be me than one of the others.

[Of course, that doesn't do Sentinel Prime or Rose any good . . . if he could spare them too, he would.]

I hear you bro holiday traveling and stuff DESTROYED me

[loveyoubaby]

Of course you'd say that. Nice to see you're still a total boyscout despite how crappy this place sounds.

[It may have had a bit of a sarcastic tone sarcastic, but he really meant it. Deckard just wouldn't be Deckard without the whole self-sacrificing hero-boy personality thing going on. Gunmax still doesn't like it, but he does calm down. At least a little bit. He crosses his arms, frowning.]

What's this about the others not being at police HQ? They find something else to do?

Haha, you responded just as I /left/ . . . got back Sunday, but this week KILLED me at work o.o

[thankyou4myheart]

[Deckard offers a small, almost sheepish grin at the first, then shakes his head.]

It's not that. It's just . . . Haven's not very big, as far as places go. It's widely spread out, but in terms of population, I don't think there are more than four or five dozen of us "refugees" all told. Being a member of what police force there is isn't like back home. It's not a full-time job. More like being on call on an as-needed basis.